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New Englands prospect. : A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called New England: discovering the state of that countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English planters; and to the old native inhabitants. Laying downe that which may both enrich the knowledge of the mind-travelling reader, or benefit the future voyager.

by: Wood, William, fl. 1629-1635; Crowninshield, Edward A., 1817-1859. fmo RPJCB

Publication date: 1634
Topics: Indians of North America, Massachuset language, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1634
Publisher: Printed at London : by Tho. Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, and are to be sold at his shop, at the three golden lyons in Corne-hill, neere the Royall Exchange
Collection: jcbindigenous; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana
Contributor: John Carter Brown Library
Language: English; Algonquian
Item Size: 487.1M

"Earliest topographical account of the Massachusetts Colony by a resident of four years."--Vail, R.W.G. Voice of the old frontier, p. 87

Map has caption: The south part of New-England, as it is planted this yeare, 1634

Signatures: A-O (O4 verso blank)

"Errata."--p. [8], 1st count

Includes selection of vocabulary in the Massachuset language: p. [1-5], 3rd group

Woodcut ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials

Church, E.D. Discovery

STC (2nd ed.)

Alden, J.E. European Americana

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1482-1700

Pilling, J.C. North American

Vail, R. Old frontier

ESTC (RLIN)

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library: E.A. Crowninshield: bookplate

Notes

Foldout map.

Addeddate: 2012-04-25 15:14:28
Associated-names: Crowninshield, Edward A., 1817-1859
Call number: b3902623
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
External-identifier: urn:oclc:record:1049895807
Foldout_seconds: 447
Foldoutcount: 1
Identifier: newenglandsprosp01wood
Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t7kp94417
Jcb_call: [R] D634 .W881n
Ocr_converted: abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.37
Ocr_module_version: 0.0.21
Openlibrary_edition: OL25295067M
Openlibrary_work: OL16612673W
Page-progression: lr
Page_number_confidence: 36
Page_number_module_version: 1.0.3
Pages: 128
Physical_description: [8], 98, [6] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 19 cm. (4to)
Ppi: 650
References: Church, E.D. Discovery, 427; STC (2nd ed.) 25957; Alden, J.E. European Americana, 634/141; Brown, J.C. Cat., 1482-1700, II:254; Pilling, J.C. North American, 4198; Vail, R. Old frontier, 87; ESTC (RLIN) S111764
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